Bombs are da Bomb

[Haagenti II]

I think that the new Bombs are just the unit I have been looking for: a reasonably cheap method to clear those nasty IV wormholes which are loaded with the hated and despised Lightning III Turrets. Cheap and quick to build, just chuck a few 100 down a wormhole.

[x4000]

Yeah, I was thinking that they would be a nice substitute for Lightning Missiles when you get them, which after all cost AI Progress.  Glad you like them!

[Volatar]

These sound similar to an idea that I was thinking of proposing for a long time (from some other fiction I like). But these sound like they will work quite nicely 

[Alex2290]

How do I build them?

[x4000]

These are the Zenith Autobombs, which are from the expansion only:  http://www.arcengames.com/aiwar_zenithremnant.php

[Alex2290]

These are the Zenith Autobombs, which are from the expansion only:  http://www.arcengames.com/aiwar_zenithremnant.php

Thanks.

Does the expansion work with the steam-bought game?

[x4000]

Yes, it is cross-compatible, and in January it will be on sale through Steam (with an option for existing preorder customers to migrate, I suspect).

[JfpOne23]

How does one use the "bombs"?  Do they need to be transported to a target wormhole?  Built in-system? Launched from the Galaxy Map?

[x4000]

He's referring to the new Zenith AutoBombs unit, which basically work like cutlasses or vampires, automatically seeking out targets within a certain range.  The AutoBombs detonate on impact and do area damage.  The current prereleases have a bug with the AutoBomb targeting when chasing moving targets, just to be warned, but that will be fixed before official release.  Pretty cool unit, though.

[Haagenti]

Autobombs are fully mobile ships. Basically, you send a few fighters into a wormhole to "distract" the lightning turrets, and then you send in a large bunch of autobombs to kill everything off around that wormhole. Cheap area damage.

[JfpOne23]

Sounds great...looking forward to trying them sometime soonish.

[soMe_RandoM]

Z Auto bombers like realy good at the start of the game for those low power recon missions of destroying easy targets from 5 hops away or even more. low power stops them from killing them self stupidly and about all of them are used when you target a command station.

[superking]

autobombs are going to suddenly become useful come the CoN expansion- carriers!

[zebramatt]

Autobombs are brilliant!

[Frozen Critical]

wait , how is it even possible to achieve and gain a Z autobomb in the first place? call me clueless and a dumbarse , but i just don't play with foreign unit-creation buildings that ain't in the original AI war(without the ZR extention)